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Lending a new name to the former Fighting Sioux

Imagine the clever signs this fan could create for the North Dakota Sugar Beets. (ZUMAPRESS.com)

Following a statewide vote Tuesday, North Dakota will be allowed to swap out the NCAA-restricted "Fighting Sioux" nickname for what will likely be some decidedly unevocative cat or bird. (Yes, allowed to swap. Read more; it's complicated.) We have lived for years with regret that Arkansas State, when in a similar situation, rebuffed our suggestion to become the Arkansas State Vine-Ripe Pink Tomatoes or the Arkansas State Manmade Lakes Of Massive Proportion. Thus, we hastened to compile a state-appropriate list of new mascots for UND: